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joining us now, ezra, msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us again. >> how are you? >> same as i was before except more blown away. this is not the big narrative. the big narrative is about what is going on on the right. has the much smaller that's true of what people are paying attention. to is this a sign of enthusiasm or at least organization among the democratic base? >> certainly a sign of organization. you know, and it what we are seeing, there is this. people don't like d.c. right now. the narrative is supposed to be people don't like democrats. in fact they don't like d.c.'s republicans either. you see the d.c. democrats going down. like swett and you see the republicans going down like in delaware with castle. and the basic message is they don't like what's going on right behind me. >> this is shaping up in new hampshire. this race, this kuster versus swett race in new hampshire. we don't have every precinct reporting but it is shaping up to be a very big spread. and in an election in which there is not a primary next which there is not huge turnout, there a
joining us now, ezra, msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us again. >> how are you? >> same as i was before except more blown away. this is not the big narrative. the big narrative is about what is going on on the right. has the much smaller that's true of what people are paying attention. to is this a sign of enthusiasm or at least organization among the democratic base? >> certainly a sign of organization. you know, and it what we are seeing, there is this. people don't...
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that's what it looks like to use the culture war issue against republicans, to use their own extremism nationally against them locally. the other bit of conventional wisdom democrats appear to be following en masse this year is that democrats can't run on their own record. democrats can't run on what they've accomplished in washington over the last two years. it can't be done. republicans said these elections should be a referendum on president obama. and the people are angry at president obama and at the democrats so therefore since republicans said we should do it that way i guess it will be that way. by and large, democrats appear to have bought into that republican serving spin about these elections instead of fighting it and putting their own framing on things. that's why you see democrats across the country doing anything they can to avoid acknowledging that their district is part of the country. that they are part of a party. they're part of a party that the president is actually the leader of. and he's been doing stuff. democrats, they say you can't run on your record. they say
that's what it looks like to use the culture war issue against republicans, to use their own extremism nationally against them locally. the other bit of conventional wisdom democrats appear to be following en masse this year is that democrats can't run on their own record. democrats can't run on what they've accomplished in washington over the last two years. it can't be done. republicans said these elections should be a referendum on president obama. and the people are angry at president obama...
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any vote we take is going to kill us. all we want to do is put our head down and get through the last two months. there's some of that intense, defensive crouch, risk aversion that's also driving. >> let me ask you about whether or not the democrats are really going to press ahead. frank rich obviously very influential wrote how fdr in 1936 was able to turn populist anger against the economy into political advantage even though they were the party in power by saying that republicans were the party of the financial bad guys, the people who were getting rich while everyone else suffered and he welcomed their hatred. is there any hope, any legs to this as a potential strategy for the democrats left? >> well, there are legs although i would say that gdp growth in 1936 was actually quite positive. the country was actually growing. it had this horrible trough and part of the reason roosevelt was so popular at that point, gdp growth was actually quite remarkable in that year. it then went back down. there was a double dip. so, l
any vote we take is going to kill us. all we want to do is put our head down and get through the last two months. there's some of that intense, defensive crouch, risk aversion that's also driving. >> let me ask you about whether or not the democrats are really going to press ahead. frank rich obviously very influential wrote how fdr in 1936 was able to turn populist anger against the economy into political advantage even though they were the party in power by saying that republicans were...
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thank you for joining us tonight. and welcome to the last major night of primaries before this year's midterm elections. it is now 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, which means that polls have officially closed in the seven states across the country, holding elections tonight. plus the district of columbia. we are keeping an eye on all of the results as they come in this hour. perhaps the biggest single race of the night is the race for republican nomination for senate in the great state of delaware. it's the race to fill vice president joe biden's old senate seat. polling leading up to today suggesting a virtual dead heat between nine-term republican congressman mike castle and the tea party-backed challenger christine o'donnell. right now with 67% of precincts reporting, christine o'donnell leads mike castle with 55% of the vote to mike castle's 45%. we will have much more on this race in a moment. polls have just closed in the state of new york, where controversy plagued democratic congressman charlie rangel is trying t
thank you for joining us tonight. and welcome to the last major night of primaries before this year's midterm elections. it is now 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, which means that polls have officially closed in the seven states across the country, holding elections tonight. plus the district of columbia. we are keeping an eye on all of the results as they come in this hour. perhaps the biggest single race of the night is the race for republican nomination for senate in the great state of...